De voormalige gouverneur van Minnesota, Tim Pawlenty, maakte afgelopen week in Iowa, de staat waar de eerste caucus plaats vindt, officieel bekend dat hij mee doet aan de race op de GOP nominatie. Pawlenty noemde het de start van zijn “truth” campagne.

“In my campaign, I’m going to take a different approach. I am going to tell you the truth. The truth is Washington D.C.’s broken”, aldus Pawlenty. “It’s time for new leadership. It’s time for a new approach. And, it’s time for America’s president – and anyone who wants to be president – to look you in the eye and tell you the truth.” Waar hebben we dat eerder gehoord?!

Na dat Pawlenty president Obama bekritiseerde over onder andere de economie en de gezondheidszorg, beloofde hij dat hij de Republikeinse partij en het land weer zal verenigen. “No president deserves to win an election by dividing the American people – picking winners and losers, protecting his own party’s spending and cutting only the other guys’; pitting classes, and ethnicities, and generations against each other”, aldus Pawlenty. “The truth is, we’re all in this together. So we need to work to get out of this mess together.”

“The truth about federal energy subsidies, including federal subsidies for ethanol, is that they have to be phased out. We need to do it gradually. We need to do it fairly. But we need to do it”, aldus de voormalige gouverneur. “Conventional wisdom says you can’t talk about ethanol in Iowa or Social Security in Florida or financial reform on Wall Street. But someone has to say it.”

“I’ll also tell the truth to wealthy seniors that we will means test Social Security’s annual cost-of-living adjustment”, aldus Pawlenty.

Lees meer hier en bekijk hier het spotje dat de Democratische partij namens Obama for America als kritiek op Pawlenty lanceerde.